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  2. Ŭ - Wikipedia

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    The letter ŭ is called non-syllabic u (romanised: u nieskładovaje) in Belarusian because it resembles the vowel u but forms no syllables. It is an allophone of /v/ that forms the diphthongs aŭ, eŭ, oŭ and is equivalent to . Its Cyrillic counterpart is ў. [1] Sometimes (as in National Geographic atlases), the Cyrillic letter ў is ...

  3. Ü - Wikipedia

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    Ü (lowercase ü) is a Latin script character composed of the letter U and the diaeresis diacritical mark. In some alphabets such as those of a number of Romance languages or Guarani it denotes an instance of regular U to be construed in isolation from adjacent characters with which it would usually form a larger unit; other alphabets like the Azerbaijani, Estonian, German, Hungarian and ...

  4. U - Wikipedia

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    In English, the letter u has four main pronunciations. There are "long" and "short" pronunciations. Short u , found originally in closed syllables, most commonly represents /ʌ/ (as in 'duck'), though it retains its old pronunciation /ʊ/ after labial consonants in some words (as in 'put') and occasionally elsewhere (as in 'sugar').

  5. Spelling alphabet - Wikipedia

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    A spelling alphabet (also called by various other names) is a set of words used to represent the letters of an alphabet in oral communication, especially over a two-way radio or telephone. The words chosen to represent the letters sound sufficiently different from each other to clearly differentiate them.

  6. Latin phonology and orthography - Wikipedia

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    Similar to u in put when short. [uː] Similar to u in true when long. Transliteration of Greek ου . y [ʏ] As in German Stück when short (or as short u or i) (mostly used in Greek loanwords). Transliteration of Greek short υ . [yː] As in German früh when long (or as long u or i) (mostly used in Greek loanwords). Transliteration of Greek ...

  7. Breve - Wikipedia

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    Contrastive use of Cyrillic kratka (for consonant [j]) and Latin breve (for short vowel [ĭ]) above и in Russian-Nenets dictionary. In Emilian, ĕ ŏ are used to represent [ɛ, ɔ] in dialects where also long [ɛː, ɔː] occur. In Esperanto, u with breve (ŭ) represents a non-syllabic u in diphthongs /u̯/, analogous to Belarusian ў.